One has higher specs than the other.
DLSS is an upscaling technique. It’s very sophisticated and achieves great results but it’s still just an upscaling technique. It can make your games punch above their weight visually but your games are still designed for whatever level of spec they were designed around before DLSS prettied them up. But the hardware you’re using has other impacts on your game beyond just the visuals - actual game design can be impacted by it too. In this case, the two hardware profiles are almost a generation apart. DLSS can cover the visual distance, but nothing can make up the hardware difference elsewhere.
That frankly doesn’t answer the question.
This also doesn’t answer the question I posed. Saying they are “almost a gen apart” or “one is stronger” is just vague. For instance your PS4 level choice; are we talking PS4 level with more modern gains in hardware advancement or matching base PS4 with the trade off being an OLED screen. Like I said some of us know but others may not entirely know what the the options presented offer & are trading off for their screen.
I managed to make Persona 5 on Switch be real, this is a walk in the park by comparison
I’m not sure what you’re looking for. We are talking about purely hypothetical hardware in the most superficial terms possible. The kind of deep dive on what the trade offs would entail doesn’t exist for this question because this hardware doesn’t exist. The most I can tell you is what I envisioned, which is hardware that functionally equals PS4 and hardware that functionally equals XBX, both using similarly modern chipsets (no different from the Switch itself on that front), both being DLSS enabled.
I’m not asking to get super technical because for most people that flies over their head. Even on a superficial level there can be more details made to both questions to think of the polls. For instance a PS4 level Switch with an OLED & DLSS is not bad. When we are talking trade offs does that machine comfortably get PS5 level ports or is it more like the current Switch with it being more sporadic, etc?
No, those are good questions!
Assume SSD on both
Option 1 it is.
I feel like "Series S" is the best of the three as it is next gen with features that neither PS4 or Xbox One X can support I assume, like ray-tracing.
I would agree. A PS4 level Switch would do well in getting ports from PS5. It would probably start falling off a little towards the end of gen. The gains would most likely be consistency & stability for games on the machine; though this is dependent on game. While there would still be compromises it wouldn’t be as drastic like we see with some Switch ports.
If in this hypothetical the Series S Switch gets that out the box with some other stuff then it is the best choice. I still think the second option is just better since an OLED screen can always come at another date. The base is the more important question between the two since the Series S Switch keeps a higher hypothetical ceiling for a longer period of time.
More or less where I'm at
